Barbara Garofalo
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Bárbara Garofalo is a Venezuela
Venezuela
Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...

n actor
Acting
Acting is the work of an actor or actress, which is a person in theatre, television, film, or any other storytelling medium who tells the story by portraying a character and, usually, speaking or singing the written text or play....

, dancer and teen idol. She is currently one of Venezuela's most famous teenagers.

Biography

Barbara Garofalo began her career in show business as a professional dancer in 1995, when she was only two and a half years old. Garofalo around that time also began to participate in runway fashion
Fashion
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 shows as a model.

In 1999, Garofalo got her first big break in Venezuelan show business, when she participated in the Venezuelan children's film
Film
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, La Aventura Magica de Oscar (Oscar's Magic Adventure), where Garofalo starred. Garofalo participated in three telenovela
Telenovela
A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...

's in 1999, these being Carita Pintada (Little Painted Faces), Hay Amores que Matan (Loves that Kill), and Vive la Pepa (Pepa Lives).

Garofalo made her international acting debut in 2001, when she went to Colombia
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...

, to act in Mi Pequena Mama (My Small Mother), which, in turn, paved the road for her to become famous in that country as well, after the 2002 dramatic, adult telenovela hit La Venganza (The Vengeance).

Barbara Garofalo later released her first CD; In 2003, she was asked during a telephone
Telephone
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 interview about what were her future plans, to which she replied; Each one God
God
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has on His plans. I want to keep acting, (which is) my great fascination. I have been contacted (about that), but with no further concrete plans. I would love to sing. I have written a few songs, and I am working towards that goal
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